Playing hardball gets Chen back in game
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President Chen Shui-bian's supporters bring flags to a ceremony where a support group was launched in Taipei to back Chen's re-election bid yesterday.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSRONG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Constitution must change, experts say
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Dane Waters, left, president of the US Initiative and Referendum Institute, and Bruno Kaufmann, his counterpart in Europe, yesterday discussed the question of implementing referendums in Taiwan.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Bali tightens security for anniversary
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Police stand guard as tourists pass by along a street in Kuta yesterday. More than 1,300 survivors and relatives of victims are expected to attend a memorial service under heavy security to commemorate the bombing attacks on October 12 last year at two Kuta nightclubs.
PHOTO: AFP
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Bali uses its art, theater to heal the terror of bombings
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Girls perform a traditional dance to protect their village against attacks.
PHOTO: AFP
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Iranian reaction to Nobel mixed
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Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize, receives flowers as she arrives at a news conference in Parison Friday.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Postwar crime confining women to house arrest
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An Iraqi woman in traditional Muslim clothing hurries past mannequins in Western-style clothing at a store in downtown Mosul on Friday. An explosive rise in crime has wreaked havoc on once genteel areas and driven women indoors.
PHOTO: AP
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Fortress America's chilly hello
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ILLUSTRATION: YU SHA
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In search of savings, companies turn to the sun
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The roof of the Pinot Noir facility at Domaine Carneros in Napa, California, which produces 120 kW of electricity using solar photovoltaic panels, last spring. Solar power has evolved from being an expensive, pie-in-the-sky technology to one that is finally beginning to make business sense. Recent electricity shortages in California, the continuing gyrations in energy prices worldwide, and new government-sponsored incentives are among the reasons for companies' efforts to start or expand their use of the technology.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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A place to enjoy nature and a few ions
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Sun shines through a banyan tree's roots.
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A suspension bridge takes visitors out of the Jhihben forest recreation area.
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A lotus blooms in one of the park's ponds.
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Don't touch the leaves of the "biting dog tree."
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Monkeys are easily visible from the trails.
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Taiwan takes top prize at South Korean film festival
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Lu Yi-ching plays an anxious grandmother in Lee Kang-sheng's award-winning film The Missing.
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE DIRECTOR
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`Shipwreck' looks at the novelist being himself
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Shipwreck
By Louis Begley
244 pages
Alfred A. Knopf
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Forging a pioneer's trail
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Yan Shui-long's "smokers only" advert from 1934 for Smoca tooth powder.
PHOTO COURTESY OF TAIPEI CRAFT DESIGN CENTER
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Aboriginal culture was one of Yang Shui-long's favorite themes, as shown by these clay vessels.
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`Fear's Empire' addresses the flawed logic of pre-emptive strikes
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Fear's Empire: War, Terrorism and Democracy
By Benjamin R. Barber
220 pages
W.W.Norton & Co
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Arts' adventure playground
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Wang De-yu's No. 50 is a large airbag that fills half the ground floor of Taipei's Museum of Contemporary Art.
PHOTO COURTESY OF MUSEUM OFCONTEMPORARY ART
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Huang Shih-chie's kinetic installations surprise viewers with their unpredictable responses.
PHOTO COURTESY OF MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
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Aussies Lee and Gillespie bowl out Zimbabwe
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Brett Lee bowls for Australia during the third day of play in the test match between Australia and Zimbabwe played at the WACA ground in Perth, Saturday.
PHOTO: EPA
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Valentino Rossi takes pole after setting track record
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US' Nicky Hayden on his Honda takes a corner ahead of Japan's Tohru Ukawa and US' Colin Edwards during a qualifying session of the Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang Circuit in Sepang, south of Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. The Malaysian Grand Prix will be held today.
PHOTO: EPA
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All Blacks steamroll Italy; Fiji crumbles
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Aboriginal dancers perform during the opening ceremony for the Rugby World Cup at Sydney's Olympic Stadium, Friday. Australia defeated Argentina in the opening match.
PHOTO: AP
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New Zealand's Tana Umaga, right, fends off Ramiro Martinez of Italy during their Rugby World Cup match in Melbourne, Australia, Saturday. New Zealand won 70-7.
PHOTO: AP
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Romanian defenders, in blue, halt Ireland's attack on the try line in the first half of their Rugby World Cup match in Gosford, Australia, Saturday.
PHOTO: AP
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An unlikely hero surfaces for Chicago
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Baseball fans enjoy a tailgate party ahead of the Cubs-Marlins game at Pro Player Stadium in Miami, Florida, Friday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Dodgers sale awaits owners' OK
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Frank McCourt, of Brookline, Massachusets, stands in his office in Boston, in this 2001 file photo. McCourt, president and CEO of The McCourt Co, a firm primarily involved in real estate development, reached an agreement on Friday to purchase the Los Angeles Dodgers from News Corp.
PHOTO: AP
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